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We're delighted to bring the 2018 Artists in Residency Application season to a close with this announcement of our AIR - Bellagio Winners! Well done! http://ow.ly/gwJT30od2g4

Africa Centre will be taking ITC to Mbombela. There is so much talent and i am excited to be part of this project. Looking forward in visiting the Province. Watch out here we come!!

Calling for Applications (Nairobi - based Opportunity.)
Public Events at the McMillan Memorial Libraries.
Application Deadline: 14th March 2019
http://ow.ly/UTuH30nX3Ep

Friends in New York, our Artists in Residency partner, Rohina Ali is hosting their 25th Anniversary Spring Fundraiser on 4th April. Do support this incredible space.

Early Bird Tickets: Julie Mehretu & Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi in Conversation | ISCP 25th Anniversary Spring Fundraiser

We're gutted to hear of Bisi Silva's passing. She served Africa Centre's program on several occasions in various capacities. May her work continue to live through those she worked with and inspired. Rest, Bisi.

Celebrated Contemporary African Art Curator Bisi Silva Has Passed Away The independent curator and founder of Lagos' Centre for Contemporary Art lost her battle with cancer.​

Meet the AIR 2018 Award Winners. Well done!
http://www.africacentre.net/air-2018-winner-announcement/

Meet Wangui Wa Goro is an intellectual, writer, critic, translator and researcher from Kenya now on our . She has particular interest in the development of African languages and literature. Wa Goro is an active participant in the promotion of literary translation internationally. She has translated the works of great authors such as Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. Her writing includes essays, poetry, short stories, fiction and non-fiction. She has been very vocal in matters human rights both in Africa and in Europe. She has also been a part of boards such as the Women's Studies Network UK and the African Literature Association.

Younes Baba-Ali is a visual and sound artist from Morocco. He mixes technology, objects, sound, video and photography with political, social and ecological issues to impact, influence and move his audience into making a decison or taking a stand. Graduating from l’Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg in 2008, and from l’Ecole Supérieure
d’Art d’Aix-en-Provence in 2011, he was rewarded by the prize “Léopold Sédar Senghor”, during the African
Contemporary Art Biennial of Dakar (Sn) in 2012 and the prize “Boghossian”, during the Belgian Art Prize
“Art’Contest” in Brussels (Be) in 2014.
He is now on our .

Kiprop Kimutai is a Nairobi-based writer whose fiction has appeared in Kwani? Trust, Jalada Africa, Painted Bride Quarterly, No Tokens, Kachifo, New internationalist and Acre Books. In 2017, he was invited to South Africa as a panelist for the Franschhoek Literary Festival and as a speaker for the Future Nations Schools Book Fair. He has also participated in the Caine Prize, Farafina and Kwani Trust?/Granta workshops. Kiprop has been shortlisted for the Miles Morland Scholarship and the Gerald Kraak Award, and was the second runner’s up for the Kwani? Manuscript Project for his manuscript The Water Spirits. As an editor, he solicited and curated poetic verse from q***r Africans for the anthology Walking the Tightrope: Poetry and Prose by LGBTQ Writers from Africa (Lethe Press, 2016). He was on the Kweli Scholar Program fellowship and is working on his novel.

Meet Olalekan Jeyifous, a Nigerian-born, Brooklyn-based artist and designer on our . In May 2000, he received a Bachelor's degree in Architecture from Cornell University where his primary focus was experimenting with the application of various computer software in the creation of art, design and architecture. After graduating, he enjoyed a 4 year tenure as a senior designer at the inimitable dbox before continuing on to pursue my creative compulsions full-time. Since then he has been fortunate enough to exhibit his artwork in venues throughout the world as well as create beautiful visuals for a variety of amazing clients.